link.springer.com/article/10.1... First review of Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation. #hps #philsci

au.news.yahoo.com/glass-square... #Storage

New BJPS Short Read! Why Does Causal Reasoning Work? Naftali Weinberger, Porter Williams & James Woodward on the role of worldly infrastructure www.thebsps.org/short-reads/... #philsci #philsky

www.sysdig.com/blog/kuberne... #Kubernetes

#HPS 🧪

www.theregister.com/2026/02/15/e... #Russia

I got to welcome @saraseager.bsky.social—one of the world's leading astrobiologists—to my St. Mike's course: Aliens & The Heavens! My students drove a lively Q&A about exoplanets, funding, and definitions of life.👽🌌 #astrobiology #academicsky #hps 🐋🌱 @utoronto.ca @ustmikes.bsky.social

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... #DeepFake

Citation: issues.org/interview-ka... 🧪 #philsci

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr... #DataSecurity

Just accepted: Cognitive Bias in Large Language Models: A Vindicatory Approach – David Thorstad Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky

www.phoronix.com/review/linux... #Radeon

Models of science focus on how scientific agents/activities reach solutions or produce discoveries. I think this is why they're often so useless at actually explaining how science does what it does. We need to understand how science generates problems because that's exactly where it excels.

foss-daily.org/posts/micros... #AI

We treat language as a neutral tool for describing reality, but what if it's actually creating it? | https://bit.ly/4uxxAjd Neuroscientist Jeremy Skipper argues that language itself is an altered state of consciousness, and only by losing it can we see the world as it really is. #philsci #cogsci

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit... #RedHat

Since I forgot to post it, here's a paper I wrote on predictive processing, structure-function mappings in the brain, and why their relationship is more complicated than you might have thought #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence link.springer.com/article/10.1...

fortune.com/2026/01/10/n... #Netflix

though Popper was no fan of religion, i think his falsificationism carves out space for important explanations of our reality that are nonetheless non-scientific (contra the positivists). he wasn't opposed to hermeneutic projects, he just didn't think they were science. #philosophy #philsci

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20... #Ransomware

We may understand the relationship between “philosophy” and “science” in two ways: first, inasmuch as philosophy itself is a science, of a certain kind; and second, how philosophy as a science stands relative to “science” in the modern sense. bit.ly/philsci2025

www.theregister.com/2026/02/05/m... #Microsoft

TIL about a large number of operators/tools that can be used to make Google searches much more focused and productive 🧪 #philsci cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit... #Office

Who owns our knowledge? This is the theme of the Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship today, for which I am honored to deliver the opening keynote on the relation between Open Science and #AI - Programme: openaccess.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul... #philsci

www.macrumors.com/2026/01/16/a... #MacBook

"The wave function of the universe is like a cosmic secret that physics itself conspires to keep." New Scientist covers recent work by Eddy Keming Chen & Roderich Tumulka published in the BJPS: www.newscientist.com/article/2513... Link to the (free) paper in next comment. #philsci #philsky #hps

www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-rese... #Worm

⚛️ Do molecules have structure? Yesterday, @vanessaseifert.bsky.social and Alexander Franklin delivered the BSPS Popper Prize lecture and talked about their award winning research. 📹 Lecture recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Sa... #PhilSci @aliboyle.bsky.social @thebsps.bsky.social

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit... #Malware

Quantum mechanics is the accounting of the network, general relativity is just a story the nodes tell themselves to make them feel like they get to move too. Sorry little fellas, the universe is moving, you're just a convenient home till the next hop is free #physics #maldacena #philsci

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microso... #Microsoft365

"The problem is that good science is, well, really hard, and irreproducibility simply comes with the job." #MetaSci #PhilSci

www.certkit.io/blog/45-day-... #LetsEncrypt

Finished last revisions my book „The Conceptual Fabric of Science“ - this is an image from the chapter on the epistemic utility of patchwork concepts for describing, classifying or explaining phenomena. (1/2)

www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/nist-cv... #NIST

From the latest issue: Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking – Federica Bocchi, Alisa Bokulich, Leticia Castillo Brache, Gloria Grand-Pierre & Aja Watkins Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #philsci #philsky

www.macrumors.com/2026/01/25/m... #MacBook

Your Friends Influence Your Choices, But You Don't Know How Exactly AKA: Causal Inference on Networks: When Your Exposure Mapping Is Wrong 1/ #CausalSky #StatSky #EpiSky #EconSky #MLSky

www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi... #BitLocker

Xu Lu & Lingxuan Wu provide new micro evidence that depositor inattention affects banks’ deposit pricing & interest rate risk. Banks serving more inattentive depositors set lower deposit rates, have lower deposit betas, & weaker outflows when the policy rate rises. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

openai.com/index/scalin... #PostgreSQL

"The stock market is reflecting fears of an AI apocalypse for white-collar jobs. The momentum trade is swept up by concerns that AI could disrupt established industries like insurance and wealth management" #EconSky Gift link: www.marketwatch.com/story/the-st...

9to5google.com/2026/01/21/g... #Gemini

On the left: IceCube, one of the world’s most prestigious neutrino observatories, located in Antarctica. On the right: Google Reviews of IceCube. 😆#philsci #Science #SciSky

www.eddieoz.com/llms-under-s... #RedTeam

My new article, hot off the e-press: This year the cell biology journal Protoplasma celebrates its 100th anniversary! But why did its founders name it "Protoplasma" in 1926, and what does the name say about the history of the idea of the cell? link.springer.com/article/10.1... #histsci #philsci

www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/mi... #Microsoft

Dark Matter Map "Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence on the formation of stars, galaxies and planets." #News #Science 🧪

www.sciencefocus.com/news/earth-t... #MilkyWay